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HOLD THE PHONE! This just in - I FINALLY MADE PAGE 1 OF GOOGLE!!

SOMEONE'S HAVING THE BEST WEEK EVER! ME!

I must apologize up front - I normally hate when people use all caps - but this post simply wouldn't be the same without it.

I JUST MADE PAGE ONE OF GOOGLE FOR THE SEARCH TERM "MCKINNEY REAL ESTATE AGENT"!

This. Is. HUGE!

My market is FULL of top producing agents, and as I did my "Google Check" on my favorite search terms for McKinney, TX I nearly had a heart attack when my name appeared - #7 - on page 1. I quickly scrolled to the bottom of the page, ready to hit "page 2" hoping I might have squeezed onto p.2, when what to my eyes did appear but MOI! It was my Active Rain profile page! BINGO! Yet another reason to have a good profile page, right?

This is the gigantic cherry-on-top of my first month-plus in 2009. If I may, I'd like to brag a little bit - I'm sure Active Rain won't mind:

I finally have my #1 spot back for McKinney, TX (although I've got my eye on those who are on my heels. Thank you for the boost of competition I need to excel!)
I finally had my first featured AR post - not just one either, TWO in the same week!
I was asked to be a guest blogger to the Christianity and Real Estate blog - I felt like I had been handed an Academy Award!
I have been contacted by many asking to use my information in their newsletters, online blogs and asking to add me to their referral database. ME!
I signed up for an outside blog - www.McKinneyTexasHomesBlog.com
My blog subscribership has doubled - not many - but still, doubled!
AND - finally - Page 1 of GOOGLE!

...and all of this in the first month on Active Rain

...all of this within the day I wrote down my Active Rain goals, my 2009 Business Plan, and have been working the plan.

I don't know what you are putting into that Google Juice, Active Rain, but keep it coming!

And a note to those of you not yet "getting it": Active Rain is the best FREE place of real estate knowledge, information, advice, referrals and SEO you're ever going to get!

You all can do it too! Who's going to have the "Best Week Ever" next week?

Posted by Kim Daugherty, McKinney REALTOR, TX Broker on 02/05/2009 04:38 PM

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23 Comments on HOLD THE PHONE! This just in - I FINALLY MADE PAGE 1 OF GOOGLE!!

FEB

Congratulations Kim on the long list of achievements in such a short period of time. It is great to see your success and enthusiasm, keep it up!

Robert May

Congratulations, Kim. What a fantastic way to start the year. Keep on blogging and you will stay top of mind.

Have fun and thanks for sharing,

That's great news. Don't forget to submit your site to Yahoo and MSN. Good luck.

what a great week for you! Keep up the great work, and no doubt more closings are very close behind all of these great accomplishments

Kim, that is very exciting, indeed. Especially in such a short time! Congratulations!

Kim good things come to those that persist..forget about waiting, jump on the PR train while it's hot good for you.

Active Rain has lots of SEO juice, not only is it fun, but it gets results.

Kim, you are working it, girl. Congrats.

Wow - sounds like I'll have to get motivated and get some blogging and A/Ring done! Congratulations!

Yeahhhhhhh I am working on that as well so i know how hard it is. Congratulations and now start working the leads.

How wonderful. Your effort paid off and congrats on your smart focus that gave you much higher exposure. I sincerely hope this results in business opportunities for you as well. Congrats on your #1 McKinney Feature Member spot as well.

Congrats! That is huge news. I remember how excited I was when it happened.

Kim,

I like to know how you did it because if we don't learn something new..then it does not make any sense of sharing. I like to here how you did it. Can you share???

FEB

Awesome totally awesome

Congrats, i am planning to move to Mckinney. I heard good things about mckinney

Thank you so much for the nice words. I'll celebrate now, but know that I can't stop...I must keep working!

Grace - I did it by consistently blogging, coming up with content-rich blogs that I thought would appeal to buyers/sellers in my area. I did it through commenting and learning so much from everyone around me on AR. It took me a while, and I think I suffered from information overload, but it's all digested and I'm starting to put the pieces of the puzzle together now.

Thanks Kim! I hear you CONTEN-RICH blogs. I agreed with you you have to write something that will appeal to buyers/sellers in your area.

Kim

That is wotrth a big fat congrat! Way to go. Sounds like you are doing things right.

FEB

Hi Kim,

I just googled me, Karen Sanchez, there are 3 Karen Sanchez real estate agents in CA.

Well HOT DOG! I came up on google, page 1, because of ActiveRain! I'd say yahoo! But I didn't come up on that search engine.

Go ACTIVERAIN!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the tip!

the Apple Valley CA, Karen Sanchez

FEB

Hey Kim, You are the envy of most of us. What one single thing in your profile was the key?

FEB

Congratulations Kim!! Great news, and in such a short amount of time! I guess I'll google my area and see what happens :-)

Mary - you really need to google yourself, and often!

Mike - Single thing , huh? I can't say one single thing is key. Just showing personality, listing your resume in an easy to read way and consitently post on AR. good luck!

WOO HOO !! Guess What!! When I googled Red Feather Lakes Co agent, I am #3 Page 1 !! Thanks for the post, and Congratulations to you again! and thank you ActiveRain!!

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